A PILOT accused of bludgeoning his estranged wife to death with a hammer said he thought about crashing his jumbo jet after the killing.

Robert Brown, 47, said he “just lost it” with his millionairess wife Joanna, 46, then came to his senses to find her battered to death.

After the attack, he told Reading crown court he thought about crashing his British Airways jumbo to prove a point to lawyers after being “stitched up”.

He said: “I thought, I want to fly one last time and crash the aircraft. I wanted them to be held accountable.”

Brown said that before burying his wife’s body in Windsor Great Park he had considered hanging himself at the marital home in Ascot, Berks. Giving testimony, Brown apologised to Joanna’s relatives, only for a male voice to reply: “Shut up.”